Sixties has been one of the decades of XX century that more changes and revolutions brought us. The struggle for equality, the Kennedy assassination, the Beatles, the Vietnam War... All these events marked an era and culminating in the hippie counterculture movement in the late sixties began a new period.

In this decade, a new generation of young people who have not lived the hardships of war and that fights for differentiate themselves from their predecessors whom they accuse of disasters in previous years.

It is precisely this sense of rejection to all the above what is behind the new aesthetic because, as always, great fashion twists hide behind important social revolutions.

At that time London was one of the world's cultural epicenters. The period of effervescence experienced by the city was known as the Swinging London, a time of excessive optimism after the austerity of the years following World War II.

It is in London where a young Mary Quant opened a shop that started selling creations of other designers to offer their own designs later. From their location in King's Road the English visionary and her fast fashion adapted to the tastes of the younger ones were some of the causes that have shaken the archaic fashion houses.

But leave aside the struggle between couture and ready-to-wear and focus on the most famous creation of Mary Quant: the miniskirt.

The short piece of clothing was born with a desire to revolutionize the world itself, but contrary to what we think of its appearance (at least initially) had absolutely nothing to do with sexuality. The miniskirt was born as an element of rejection. The youth reject their parents' generation and cling to his childhood. They refuse to grow up and become who hate so much: their parents.

Against the sumptuous dresses, tight skirts with yards and yards of crinoline, the new generation committed to short skirts and tights and Mary Janes with colorful bracelet that recreate a look naïf that has nothing to do with sexual connotations then attributed.

Mary Quant (that disputes the honor with Courrèges) was the creator of the look, and it was perfectly reflected in Twiggy, the model of the moment that embodied to perfection all the values ​​of the new generation. Girlish aesthetic (she began his career being just 17 years old), long legs and lanky pose, became one of the first models known to the public. The young Twiggy, who lived in north London with his parents, charged $180 a day. And that sum, in 1966, made ​​her one of the highest paid models in history. She became an icon and when she first traveled to the United States was received like a pop star. She became a celebrity and miniskirt became an icon that has not come back away from our closets.

From left to right, miniskirt in the catwalk of Tom Ford for Gucci in 2003, one of the creations of Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel, Helena Christensen catwalk for Versace in 1993, and a miniskirt Alaïa bicolor his collection of 1991.